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Perception is Reality in Automotive Gap and Flush

As an automotive manufacturer, you’re well aware: quality is key to your success. Beyond making vehicles with zero defects, you hope customers perceive the high quality of your vehicles as much as you do.

Yet, customers rely on their senses to judge vehicle quality and craftsmanship. In addition to seeking out that new-car smell, prospective buyers are paying attention to how your vehicles sound — and feel — when opening and closing doors, compartments and trunks; fastening straps; and driving. Are your customers complaining about vehicle squeaks and rattles, or excessive wind noise while cruising down the road?

The Small Auto Manufacturing Improvement with a Big Impact

As an automotive manufacturer, you’re well aware: quality is key to your success. Compromise the quality of your vehicles, and you risk costly rework, recalls and blows to your brand Reputation. That’s because customers have come to expect quality in not only the way their vehicles look and feel, but also in how they sound.

Does the fit and finish of your vehicles represent your original engineering design? Are your customers complaining about squeaks and rattles or wind noise? How do your vehicles look from far away — and up close? Are you confident that your vehicles’ trim pieces and door panels line up, without excessive gaps between parts or seal breaks?

If not, customers might wonder if these issues could lead to poor closure, thereby causing water leaks, rust, upholstery damage or humidity in headlights. Even issues that seem small could make consumers reconsider investing in the vehicles you’ve worked so hard to manufacture.

Gap and Flush Quality Impacts Customer Decisions

Does the fit and finish of your vehicles represent your original engineering design? Are your customers complaining about squeaks and rattles or wind noise? How do your vehicles look from far away — and up close? Are you confident that your vehicles’ trim pieces and door panels line up, without excessive gaps between parts or seal breaks?

If not, customers might wonder if these issues could lead to poor closure, thereby causing water leaks, rust, upholstery damage or humidity in headlights. Even issues that seem small could make consumers reconsider investing in the vehicles you’ve worked so hard to manufacture.

An Advantage Your Automotive Competitors May Overlook

As an automotive manufacturer, you’re well aware that design aesthetics and quality precision are critical to your success. The vehicles you make must look like they’re from one manufactured piece, with minimal, practically invisible gaps. Achieve vehicle quality, and you gain a competitive edge, while also reducing your risk of costly rework, recalls and impacts to the reputation of your brand.

That’s because customers have come to expect quality in not only the way their vehicles look and feel, but also in how they sound.

Does the fit and finish of your vehicles represent your original engineering design? Are your customers complaining about squeaks and rattles or wind noise? How do your vehicles look from far away — and up close? Are you confident that your vehicles’ trim pieces and door panels line up, without excessive gaps between parts or seal breaks?

Gain the Upper Hand in Net Content Management

Today’s food and beverage manufacturers are challenged to achieve tight net content control. Underfill your product weight, volume or count, and you violate such regulations as the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA). Overfill, and you not only waste raw materials, but also lose thousands — if not millions — of dollars in profit.

Yet, a wide range of issues can interfere with achieving tight net content control. These issues can stem from normal wear and tear of your production machinery to fluctuations in the raw materials used to make your products and beyond.

As a quality control manager, how do you find a balance between underfilling and overfilling to drive profitability while managing compliance?

Reduce Overfilling and Drive Savings to Your Bottom Line

Today’s food and beverage manufacturers are challenged to achieve tight net content control. Underfill your product weight, volume or count, and you violate regulatory guidelines. Overfill, and you not only waste raw materials, but also lose thousands — if not millions — of dollars in profit.

Yet, a wide range of issues can interfere with achieving tight net content control. They can stem from normal wear and tear of your production machinery to fluctuations in the raw materials used to make your products and beyond.

As a quality control manager, how do you balance the scales between underfilling and overfilling to drive profitability while managing compliance?

Balancing the Scales Between Compliance and Profitability

Cutting overfilling expense is — for many food and beverage manufacturers — only a dream. The focus instead has been to keep average fills above labeled content to avoid the ramifications of non-compliance.

Even though it’s known that excess overfill results in needless cost flowing right out the door, many food and beverage manufacturers find it difficult to find the right balance that achieves both regulation requirements and optimal profits.

As a quality control manager, how do you balance the scales between underfilling and overfilling to drive profitability while managing compliance?

Are You Intentionally Overfilling to Avoid a Compliance Risk?

Today’s food and beverage manufacturers are challenged to achieve tight net content control. Underfill your product weight, volume or count, and you violate such regulations as the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA).

StarKist Co., makers of StarKist®-brand shelf-stable seafood products, was sued for underfilling some of its five-ounce canned tuna products by as little as 0.03 ounces, which was in violation of state and federal law.

However, if you overfill to avoid noncompliance and lawsuits, you not only waste raw materials, but also lose thousands — if not millions — of dollars in profit.